Managerial Skills And Its Impact On Professional Qualities Of Administrators In Higher Education

Abstract

The administrator having good managerial skills will be more competent to handle their jobs. The administrators will be professionally more competent by possessing the managerial traits. The productivity of the institutions also depends on the efficient management by the administrators. Therefore, this study is an endeavour to specify the influence of managerial skills on the professional qualities of administrators. The sample size consisted of 400 administrators selected through simple random sampling. In this study, academic administrators from colleges and universities gave information of their managerial and professional qualities by employing the instrument of Goodarzi (2002) and Martin et al. (2004). In the study the managerial skills of academic administrators had positive impact on the professional qualities of administrators. The professional qualities of administrators are related with the managerial skills of administrators and thus different skill development programs and workshops should be organized to further exalt the managerial and professional qualities in administrators.